// case 01
EC2 → EKS migration at scale
45 services · 250+ instances
Multi-tenant SaaS platform · 2024 · Lead
- Deploys 90→20 min
- Infra cost −30%
- Services 45
- EKS
- Terraform
- Jenkins
- SRE
Open to staff / principal roles
Navneet Lal Gupta
Backend tech lead — distributed systems & platform modernizations.
"7+ yrs building distributed backend systems from scratch and leading large-scale platform modernizations across runtimes, container platforms, and CI/CD."
- 7+ years engineering
- 45 services migrated to EKS
- 100+ CVEs closed in upgrades
- 80M events/day ingested
- −30% infra cost
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// real-time + historical, one platform
// CURRENTLY
Tech Lead at a multi-tenant SaaS platform, based in Bangalore — building real-time data infra and leading platform-wide migrations across runtimes and CI/CD.
// SELECTED WORK
Things I've built and led
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Real-time analytics platform
Debezium CDC → Kafka → StarRocks + Spark/Iceberg lakehouse
Multi-tenant SaaS platform · 2024–present · Sole engineer
- Lakehouse 10–15 TB
- Dashboards ms-latency
- Tiers bronze/silver/gold
- Debezium
- Kafka
- StarRocks
- Spark
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GPS telemetry platform
Mid-mile tracking for quick-commerce
Logistics startup · 2020–2024 · Lead (5 eng — 3 backend, 2 frontend)
- Vehicles 8–10k
- Events/day 40–80M
- Deploy freq 1/wk → 2–3/day
- Node.js
- MongoDB
- Keycloak
- Jenkins
Also: Java 8→17 upgrade across 35 services · Node 8→18 across 8 services · Kafka+Cassandra activity ingestion platform
// WRITING
Notes from the work
All posts-
2026-05-14 · 9 min · MIGRATIONS
Migrating 45 services from EC2/systemd to EKS — and cutting deploys 4.5×
A field report from leading a platform migration of 45 services and 250+ instances at a multi-tenant SaaS company.
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2026-04-28 · 7 min · DATA PLATFORMS
Why we replaced analytics on Mongo with StarRocks
What broke when analytical queries shared a tenant cluster with OLTP — and what moving to a real OLAP engine actually gave us.
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2026-04-10 · 6 min · MIGRATIONS
Cascading dep hell: Java 8 → 17 across 35 services
End-of-support runtimes don't just block CVE fixes — they block every transitive update that depends on them. A field report from a 35-service upgrade.